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OK, here we go.
The tea is quite red. To me, that suggests a Kenyan tea. They tend to produce that colour liquor. Of course there are reddish teas from Taiwan, but that wasn’t in existence in 1935, and from China, but that has been exporting forever.
The leaves make it clear that it’s tea, not rooibos, and I vaguely recall Kenya cranking up commercially before the second world war. ( I remember reading it, I mean. I’m not that old)
So, then there’s the fruit. It seems white in the “before” picture. That suggests Apple. pear, perhaps dried ginger.But ginger is not a fruit, and there is no sign of any white in the “after” photo. So a fruit that is white dry but that darkens during steeping.
It could be a white peach, but is that exotic enough for this challenge? White nectarine? Same applies
The other white fruit I can think of is coconut. Whilst there are coconut teas, they tend to have either vanilla o mango as well. And it would show up in the after picture as white.
So I’m going back to the peach. Kenya tea, with peach, dryish and sweet.

Given the number clues, it would appear to be a Vietnamese green or a special type of oolong. I’m guessing the fruit could be lychee or dragonfruit, but the dried dragonfruit would have small black seeds. The coppery liqueur is an enigma.